André Villas-Boas has allowed himself to become embroiled in a war of words
with Wojciech Szczesny, the Arsenal goalkeeper.

The Tottenham Hotspur manager appeared to be letting the pressure of trying to
secure a Champions League place get to him today, when he made a personal
attack on Szczesny, calling him “a player only passing through to another
club”.

Szczesny had claimed that Spurs did not have “enough quality” to finish in the
top four of the Premier League but a clearly riled Villas-Boas seemed to
have got his facts wrong when he criticised the Pole, describing him as a